A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)

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This Wikibook is about A-level Chemistry, designed to follow the OCR (Salters) syllabus, but is not endorsed by OCR. It will hopefully be useful as a revision guide or for alternative explanations to the ones in your textbook or from your tutor.

Contents 1 AS Units 1.1 Chemistry for Life (2850) 1.2 Chemistry of Natural Resources (2848) 1.3 Skills for Chemistry (2852) 2 A2 Units 2.1 Chemistry of Materials (2849) 2.2 Chemistry by Design (2854) 2.3 Individual Investigation (2855) 3 The Chemistry 4 Goodies 5 Index 6 External links

[edit] AS Units

[edit] Chemistry for Life (2850)

• The Elements of Life (April 13th, 2009)
• Developing Fuels (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Chemistry of Natural Resources (2848)

• From Minerals to Elements (April 13th, 2009)
• The Atmosphere (April 13th, 2009)
• The Polymer Revolution (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Skills for Chemistry (2852)

• Open-Book Paper (April 13th, 2009)
• Experimental Skills (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] A2 Units

[edit] Chemistry of Materials (2849)

• What's in a Medicine? (April 13th, 2009)
• Designer Polymers (April 13th, 2009)
• Engineering Proteins (April 13th, 2009)
• The Steel Story (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Chemistry by Design (2854)

• Aspects of Agriculture (April 13th, 2009)
• Colour by Design (April 13th, 2009)
• The Oceans (April 13th, 2009)
• Medicines by Design (April 13th, 2009)
• Visiting the Chemical Industry (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Individual Investigation (2855)

[edit] The Chemistry

• Amino acids (April 13th, 2009)
• Atomic orbitals (April 13th, 2009)
• Born-Haber cycles (April 13th, 2009)
• Buffer solutions (April 13th, 2009)
• Complexes (April 13th, 2009)
• Electronic configurations (April 13th, 2009)
• Hydrogen (April 13th, 2009)
• Isomerism (April 13th, 2009)
• Molecular geometry (April 13th, 2009)
• Reactions of arenes (April 13th, 2009)
• Spectroscopy (April 13th, 2009)
• Vacuum filtration (April 13th, 2009)
• Weak acids (April 13th, 2009)
• Yield (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Goodies

• Chemical Ideas table of contents (April 13th, 2009)
• Table of functional groups met during the course (April 13th, 2009)
• Table of substances met during the course (April 13th, 2009)
• Table of constants met during the course (April 13th, 2009)
• Table of physical quantities met during the course (April 13th, 2009)
• Periodic table of the elements (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] Index

• Salters Advanced Chemistry Wikibook index (April 13th, 2009)

[edit] External links

• University of York course website

• OCR course website

• OCR (Salters) Advanced GCE in Chemistry — Complete Specification, Third Edition

• Organic reactions revision flashcards